Crossroads predicts more VA ads

From this week’s Open Mike with Mike Allen and American Crossroads president and CEO Steven Law:

MIKE ALLEN: Steven Law, you're the largest of the Republican super PACs. In 2010, you raised $72 million. In the presidential year last time, you raised $300 million. What's your goal this time?

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STEVE LAW: In 2012 we spent a little over $100 million on the Senate and the House.

ALLEN: So north of a $100 million?

LAW: I wouldn’t even want to surmise yet.

ALLEN: That would mean you're doing even less for the House and Senate than you did last time. If the chances are so good, why would you do less?

LAW: I would think you wouldn’t want to do less.

ALLEN: Now in Alaska right now, you’re using an ad [using the veterans scandal as an issue]. Why is that effective and will we see more of that?

LAW: The point of the ad we’re running right now is to put pressure on the Democrat-led senate to lift its blockade on the bipartisan VA reform act and we’re going to continue to press that until that bill becomes law.

ALLEN: It sounds like you expect more VA ads.

LAW: To the extent that Harry Reid continues to try to obstruct it, you'll definitely see more ads on that subject.

ALLEN: Surprise me — what's a Republican Senate candidate who you think will win that no one in D.C. does?

LAW: I think that Scott Brown is going to end up being a really, really competitive candidate.

ALLEN: Who has a better chance — Cory Gardner in Colorado or Scott Brown in New Hampshire?

LAW: Brown is one that the conventional wisdom in D.C. has been saying lately, oh no, it's over.

ALLEN: Do you predict he’ll win?

LAW: I predict he’ll win.

More of Allen's conversation with Law, including how American Crossroads won back donors angered by 2012 losses and the relationship between outside groups and the Republican Party, in the video above.